Not sure if this cybernetic aviary contains real bird vocalisms processed and treated, or if they are simulations - but it's pretty magical stuff from Dougie from Down Under
First heard this on the Creel Pone rerelease of
Or was it actually on this, as sorted out by a pal in Aussieland?
New on Room40, A Field Guide To Phantasmic Birds, by Kate Carr
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/a-field-guide-to-phantasmic-birds
Release rationale:
A note from Kate Carr
All the birds I never recorded, and some I did.
Re-imagined. Stretched and stuttering, glitching and morphing, swirling and sputtering.
Artifact and performance, digital bits all.
I imagine them swooping and calling in these scaffolds of sound I have made for them.
Gleaming amid technicolour jungles. Alive, unassailable; in a world we haven't ruined.
In a field recording I never made.
Further reading: a piece at the Quietus by Daryl Worthington connecting Kate Carr and the other recent release Synthetic Bird Music (as previously covered in this avian-garde music series) to a larger continuum of "beak music" and bird-inspired composers
Reminded me of this Sarah Angliss piece "A Wren in the Cathedral"
"Another prominent color in Angliss’s palette comes from the theremin. Although Angliss deploys the “classic” theremin sound—keening and ethereal—she’s also devised a way of getting the machine to modulate bird-song samples. That trick pops up several times on Ealing Feeder, most notably on “A Wren in the Cathedral,” where the name of seventeenth-century architect Sir Christopher Wren is amusingly literalized as the liquid chirrup of that same bird, famous for its complex and piercing song."
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